Francesca Poggiali is VP for global public policy at GS1 after 8 years as Chief Public Policy Officer Europe. Her career includes a mixture of public and private sectors experience within Ferrero, the European Commission and Parliament and a couple of trade associations.
She studied Corporate Social Responsibility at the Harvard Business School, and International and European Law in the UK and Italy where she received the highest recognition cum laude. 
Among her biggest achievements so far: the corporate social responsibility program for Ferrero International, the convergence of environmental protection and chemical industry impacts in the framework of the EU Chemical reform, the fight against illicit trade and digital product passports through open non-proprietary standards for GS1.